Red Wings keep Flames winless

DETROIT (Ticker) -- The Detroit Red Wings did not have many
chances on the power play, but they made what few they had
count.

Henrik Zetterberg and Mikael Samuelsson scored with the man
advantage to lead the Red Wings to a 4-2 victory over the
Calgary Flames at Joe Louis Arena on Wednesday night.

Tomas Holmstrom and Kris Draper also scored and Pavel Datsyuk
added a pair of assists for Detroit, which remained perfect in
three home games.

"(Miikka) Kiprusoff's a real good goalie, so it's hard to have
too much offense," Red Wings coach Mike Babcock said. "It was
good to see some of our guys get an opportunity, obviously. I
was impressed by our power play again. Obviously, it was real
good. We didn't give up that much, a few breakdowns, but a lot
better."

Kristian Huselius scored both goals for Calgary (0-2-1), which
is winless in its first three games for the first time since the
2000-01 season and was opening a four-game road trip.

Draper's goal with 3:01 remaining in the second period put the
Red Wings ahead to stay, 3-2. He redirected defenseman Andreas
Lilja's shot from the high slot past Kiprusoff for his second
tally of the season.

"I just saw the puck getting out to Lils and just tried to get
my body and my stick as much as I could in front of the net,"
Draper said. "It hit my stick and went in. It was nice to
see."

Samuelsson iced it with 4:24 to play in the contest, converting
a power play just 13 seconds after Calgary defenseman Adrian
Aucoin was sent off for interference.

"They got the lead, they're a pretty strong team when they have
the lead," Huselius said. "We battled back ... But we kind of
got put back on our heels in the third period."

There were just five penalties in the contest - three by the
Flames.

The Red Wings opened the scoring at 8:08 of the first period,
when Datsyuk found a wide-open Zetterberg on the right side for
a power-play goal.

It was Zetterberg's second tally of the season and extended his
points streak to 11 consecutive regular-season games dating to
last season. Zetterberg also has a 19-game streak at home.

"It's been a good start (personally)," Zetterberg said. "It's a
long season, so you just have to be happy and keep going."

The Flames tied the game at 13:21, when Huselius scored his
first goal of the season, backhanding the puck over goaltender
Chris Osgood, who was making his first start of the campaign.

Detroit went ahead again at 3:01 of the second period as
Holmstrom beat Kiprusoff from the doorstep for his fourth goal.
Datsyuk and blue-liner Brian Rafalski picked up assists on the
play.

The lead was short-lived as Huselius struck again just over
three minutes later, tying the game at 6:25 on another
backhander from a bad angle that deflected off Osgood.

Osgood made 19 saves for Detroit, which outshot Calgary, 28-21.

Kiprusoff stopped 24 shots for the Flames, who went 0-for-2 on
the power play.